Programme Coordinator - Freshwater Farm Plans - Fixed Term

Job Description

The Opportunity:

Join in April 2025 as a Programme Coordinator in the Sustainability Assurance team at AsureQuality, you will be responsible for delivering efficient & high-quality facilitation, planning and administration related to the appointment of freshwater farm plan certifiers and auditors, focusing on the Southland region.

This is a fixed term contract role until end of December 2025, working on a hybrid basis from our large organisation's Burnside, Christchurch office. Offering flexibility to work from home a few days a week, you will be joining a supportive team and have opportunity to grow.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Coordinate applications, competency documentation, training programmes and signoff processes for rural professionals and auditors.
• Utilize your high level of comfort in new digital environments (to implement our custom instance of MS Dynamics 365 and PowerBI) and experience working with technical rules and processes.
• Coordinate programme reporting requirements and internal performance reporting
• Process customer programme documentation and customer requests 

About You:

This role is for someone who wants to learn, and who ideally has a passion for farming and the environment. Confidence and the ability to self-source solutions are very useful to the continued success and development of this position as you will need to be decisive and responsive to requirements.

Key Requirements:

• Administration and/or customer service experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in compliance, auditing, and data management
• Strong attention to detail and data integrity skills
• Excellent communication and relationship-building via phone and email
• Comfortable with technical processes and digital systems; farming or freshwater knowledge is a plus

Key Benefits:

• Fixed term contract, start ASAP and finish end of December 2025
• Flexible hours & WFH options
• Employee volunteer programme
• Discounted healthcare & other staff discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

About Us:

Everyday our experienced team of 1800+ people work alongside farmers, producers, and others throughout the food supply chain to help them uphold what Aotearoa stands for in food - a higher standard of quality and safety.

We are passionate about our shared role as Kaitiaki Kai, guardians of food, and have a deep responsibility to do the right thing for food and the environments it comes from.

We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining great people, and supporting them to be the best they can be.  We know diverse teams are stronger teams and we believe in fairness and opportunity for all.

Helping Aotearoa shape a better food world - Join us today!